From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqMmU-0000iw-Vz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:42:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBP3fdPx014558; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:41:39 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBP3cNJj004250 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:38:23 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so857847nzf for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:38:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eqYHh9mlN+RuYLbexuTEbVWqyBqiCSrnGWUFxEOVoYEHoFX3ODqZenY1EpWmqcb3iZfXldR6tMr6GwsU/xzvaDcHRskNakT4vZlEXagzK3dbeEukgNM+GZJoYW+NMmOSaq5IglvjFwS9HfFkB9pGInEZnyk1BEseT7qi540GThw= Received: by 10.36.148.14 with SMTP id v14mr1712902nzd; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.25.18 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:38:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:38:22 -0800 From: Bret Towe To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue In-Reply-To: <1135481523.6340.5.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200512250402.28309.carlo@gentoo.org> <1135481523.6340.5.camel@Celes64.anyarch.net> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3cNJj004250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jBP3fdRb014558 X-Archives-Salt: fe402614-fc51-4c9f-aa6e-918acc145a90 X-Archives-Hash: 5a48aafea55b39d9ed0a1b7d184d86cf On 12/24/05, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 19:17 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > > On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a ridicul= ous license > > > (when you want to see it as one) we had a short discussion=B9 about= several > > > months ago. > > > > im sorry i fail to see how copyright infringement or a ridiculous lic= ence > > matters when commiting a ebuild to portage just pick a licence if tha= ts the > > issue warn the user and leave it at that > > What you are missing is that Gentoo (the foundation) is legally culpabl= e > for making sure that none of the packages that we provide in our tree > violate any form of license. If we shipped these e-builds then the > original author would have the legal right to take action against us. I= t > is not just a question of letting the user decide if they want to use a= n > illegally licensed program, we would be facilitating such an act. That > is something we cannot and will not do. THANK YOU! now if someone had said that eariler this wouldnt have gone that far is this documented somewhere so devs later on when dealing with such an item again can just post a url to it on the bug and help prevent this from happening again? > -- > Daniel Ostrow > Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees > Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} > dostrow@gentoo.org > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDrhKz/qoUyhrWzV0RAqP5AJ9VUOKz0gv/QU3dbOpjb766ZO+zFwCdFKn2 > 0485JEETpHLoyiayCt43elc=3D > =3DUmgO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list